{ FARM AMD GARDEN. | A Pointer Tor Bean It Riser*. Ido not know just how true it is, but 1 have read that the common I lack butter beau will bear continu ously through the season if the pods are all picked as soon as they are large enough to use. If any are allowed to i jen, the plaut has fulfilled its mis sion aud will die.—New York Weekly Witness. Shallow or I>eep Cultivation for Corn. We have been from boyhood a be liever iu shallow cultivation of corn, even when the work was done with a plow by most farmers. The first cul tivator we remsuiber seeing was like a small spike-toothed harrow with plow handles attached. It mollowed the ground to make easy hoeing, and killed many weeds wheu they were small, which was au inducement to use it frequently. But we never knew how much gain there was by the shal low cultivation. At the Nebraska experiment station they tested four cultivators on as many different lots one of which worked the ground six inches deep,aud the others went threo inches deep. Where the soil was worked six inches deep the yield was 59 bushels per acre. On the others one save (58 bushels per acre and the other two GO bushels each, a loss of about one-seventh by deep cultiva tion. —American Cultivator. Caring for Sheep. There are no secrets about the best way to care for sheep. The man who iiwna a farm and does not keep slieep making an excuse for not doing so because they are hard to take care of, is either ignoruut of sheep husbaudry, or simply lazy. Sheep are about the most comfortable animals to take care of that we have about us. They are quiet and gentle aud are not very particular about their feed if they are kept iu good health. They need to be led regularly aud given sound and wholesome feed, but the feed need not be of the costliest kind. Good,bright hay and a small amount of corn will keep them in good shape during the winter and grass is all they want in summer, although if there are briers, elders or any other scrubby bushes iu their pasture they will eat them up by way of relish. They should be protected from the storms of winter, and salted regularly the year through, aud for the amount of labor involved they will make bet ter returns than any other kind of stock. The Open Pasture Ditch, Many a farmer that would not think i>f liaviug anything but a covered drain iu his meadow or grain field still keeps the old-fashioned opou ditch iu his pasture. Yet the pasture drain ditch is always a nuisauce and fre ;uently a source of expense. The f-oil of the banks is constantly being washed by the rains into the bottom, and in the case of heavy freshets this washing sometimes amounts to a land slide. The whole line of the ditch is disfigured and the owner of the past ure is put to a great deal of exponse in keeping the channel sufficiently open to allow the water to run at all. Weed seeds find it a place where they can lodge and grow without dis turbance by the mov.er, and from which they can in turn send out new myriads of seeds to resow the adja cent fields. Too ofteu iu summer time stagnant pools collect in these ditches aud the cattle soek them for drinking purposes. As they readily become foul with the droppings of the farm animals and with decaying vegetation they become a menace both to the purity of the milk of the cows and to tho health of all the farm stock. Being open, they prevent the pasture being included in the rotation of crops, or, at least, make it extremely inconvenient, for the reasou that the plow could not run close to it and it would become an obstacle to the free passage of the teams at all times. Added to these things is the fact that it takes out of the pasture a con siderable aera, and we can readily see that to put a covered draiu iuits place is a wise proeeedure in almost every case.—Farm, Field and Fireside. The Good Points of Small Cheese. Small cheese are best for home con sumption. Cheese are to a certain ex tent porous, and the uubrokeu riud forms a shell of protection. When this rind is broken by cutting, air enters, and the shield that the prod uct formerly enjoyed against moder ate changes of temperature no louger serves it. Mold generates aud travels along the seams aud cavities, if the air be slightly humid; or natural moisture is dried out if conditions happen to be the opposite. In either event the quality of the cheese deteri orates, especially if several weeks elapse from the time of cuttiug before it is consumed. For average sized families, 10-pound cheese are much better to buy or make than 30 or 40-pounders. These small sized cheese, while manufacture lon a limited scale, are not produced in suf ficient quantities to supply the de mand. I think that in no way cau an increase of cheese consumption be more effectually induced than by the more general manufacture of such light-weight full cream stock. Dairymen who produce cheese at Tme for their own use should not at jrupt to have them weigh less than fivo pounds or more than ten apiece. This of course applies to the clie Idar vairetv, aud does cot mean to include brick or other sty'es of cheese of for eign introduction. By so doing they will always have a fresh aud healthy article to place upon their tables, for u small cheese beintr consumed within a few (lays after cuttiug has no cbanoa to deteriorate, if given ordinal}- care. I have been familiar with cheese and cheese making since childhood, and 1 speak from firm conviction when I say that no healthier or more nutri tious food exists than this when prop erly made and carefully servad.— George E. Newell, in New England Homestead. The' Fertility That Crops Use. From a table published by Professor Ormsby upon the manurial value of farm products, which shows the amount and value of fertilizing con stituents carried away from the soil by ditlerent products, it can be seen that the farmer who sells a ton of hay sells fertilizing ingredients which, il purchased in the form of commercial fertilizers would cost him about $5.10; that if he sells 2000 pounds of wheat lis sells an amount of nitrogen, phos phoric acid and potash which it would cost him $7.91 to replace in his soil in the form of commercial fertilizers. Or, looking at it from a somewhat different standpoint, a farmer who sells, for example, $lO worth of wheat sells with it about §2.03 worth of the fertility of his soil. In other words, when he receives his $lO this amount does not represent the net receipts of the transaction, for he has parted with $2.C>3 worth of his capital, tlmt is, of the stored up fertility of his soil, uud if he does not take this into the account he makes the same mistake a merchant would should he estimate his profits by the amount of cash which lie received and neglect to take ac count of stock. The department of agriculture sug gests that the farmer, instead of sell ing off his crops, feed them to live stock on the farm as far as possible, "if the business of stock feeding is carried to the point where feed is pur chased in addition to that grown on the farm, a considerable addition may in this way bo made to the fertility ot the farm at an almost nominal cost, since it is assumed that feed will not be bought unless its feeding value will at least pay its cost. This commendable system of indi rect purchase of fertilizers iu feeding stuffs is practiced largely in England and other European countries, and ac counts for no small share of the profits of stock-raising in those coun tries, though of course these advan tages will not be secured unless the manure produced is carefully saved and used. Marketing tile Onion Crop. The method of selling ouions at. harvest time and delivering to the railroad statiou direct from the field has many advantages over that of put ting them iu store for future sales. Probably most important is that, when taken from the field, there is no loss to the grower from shrinkage. More or less dirt will always adhere to the bulbs, which, with the outside skin, comes off by future handling, and the onions also lose moisture. Yet the practice of storing the crop for winter sales is becoming somewhat .prevalent. Especially is there a dis position to hold the crop following an advancement of prices during the pre ceding winter. The disadvantages which follow holding the crop are the deprivation of the use of the money which a ready sale would bring and the risks. These are several. Perhaps the first to bo cited would be the loss from shrink age in weight. Much depends upon the manner in which they are kept, the place of storage, the temperaturo of the storage room, and whether dry, well ripened and cured when putin store. If not, they are liable to sprout. Spronting causes the bulb to grow soft aud unmerchantable. If the crop can be stored in a building adapted to the purpose and kept continually al most at freezing point, there will be comparatively little shrinkage. I would prefer them to become chilled, or frozen some on the outer edge of the receptacle in which kept than stored in a warm cellar. But they must not be allowed to freeze and thaw repeatedly, neither should they be handled when frozen, but allowed to thaw out gradually and put upon the market at once. When frozen they should be kept iu that condition till wanted for disposal. Some per sons keep a part of their crop by stor ing in their house cellar, where they become offensive and disagreeable to those living in rooms above. Ouions intended to be kept for late sales should be harvested with the tops uncut. They are much less liable to grow, as the tops, beiug usually free from moisture, will absorb any moisture that the bulbs may have. Being dry, they will sustain a greater degree of cold, aud will be kept iu a better condition. The tops will have to be cut when marketed, unless a sale cau be made with tops ou, which is sometimes done when onious are commanding a good price. There is yet another risk in holding the crop which is comiuou to all crops, the dan ger of depreciation instead of apprecia tion in market value. Anyone who continues to hold any crop after it is ready for market, in a sense becomes a speculator, and should take into consideration the danger of a falling market. The writer has kuown in stances where crops of onions were kept through the winter and then found no sale, being finally thrown away, a total loss. Unless a farmer has abundant capital and is able to bear the loss of a part or the whole ol his crop without embarrassment, the surest way is to sell when he can get a fair price.—John M. Smith in Orange Judd Farmer. Making l'p l.ost Time. "That young poet used to be sing ing constantly, but now we never nave a note from him." "Well, somebody left liim a legacy of ten dollars, and he's quit singing aud gone to eating."—Atlanta Con xtitntjou SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. Florida boasts of a plant that greatly exceeds any other known annual in size. It is the Aenida australis, be longing to the Amarantaceae. and lias just been described by the Kew Bulle tin as having branches that certainly reach about 22 feet in length, and prob ably attain 25 feet. The island of Malta is the only known spot where the remains of dwarf elephants are found. There are several places on the island where the bones of these miniature pachyderms have been unearthed, and hundreds of skeletons have lii-eu secured in whole or in part. One of these, whose teeth and bones showed it was a full grown specimen, was less that two and a half feet in height, and could not have weighed over six hundred 'jounds when in the flesh. A notable example of electrical de velopment in foreign countries is the application on the Russian river Volga ot'fsuction dredges. The Volga dredge is electrically self-propelling and con trollable. It is in two parts, the elec tric installation of each half consist ing of a powerful generator directly to a fore and aft triple expausiou en gine. Each half measures 21G feet by 31 1-2 feet wide and 9 feet deep. At light draught the hull draws four feet; the working draught is 8 inches greater. This double dredge can be operated as a making a bottom cut sixty-two feet wide, or each half •mil be operated separately. A machine devised to crush pine wood into pulp for the manufacture of paper has just been shipped from Nashville, Tenn., to a Florida paper concern. The Nashville American says this marks the introduction of the paper business into Florida. The machine is the work of a Southern in ventor named Thomas, and for the tirst time enables paper to be profitably made from pine by eliminating the resin. The process is kept secret. The material to be used in Florida is pin slabs, the refuse of the mills, and can be hid for almost nothing, so that what is now pructically a waste pro duct will be utilized, immense crema tories having to be constructed to de stroy it. A. sample of the paper in the unfinished stato, manufactured from the material,on being torn apart, disclosed a fibre that had the appear auce of canton flannel. Geologists are of the opinion that ihe vast territory now known as Wyo ming once had numerous fresh water lakes and a climate approaching* the semi-tropical, and that the animals whose bones are from time to time coming to light inhabited there lakes and the adjoining swamps in myriads. They sauk into the mud in dying and Iheir bones were covered with other deposits and became petrified. The large beds are found at points sup posed to have been the mouths of great rivers, the animals after death having floated down these rivers to places where they were deposited in these estuaries, thus accounting for the vast deposits which characterize certain localities and which have proved such a study to scientific iu "estigators. HOW RAISINS ARE SEEDED 'ngHiiioufi Mui-liine* That Turn Out Ten or Twelve Toil* Daily. Unlike the Eastern imitation, the California seeded raisin is subjected to a dry temperature of 140 degrees Fahrenheit from three to five hours, immediately after which the fruit is submitted to a chilling process, and while in this reduced conditiou of temperature is passed through clean ing or "blushing" machiues, which remove every particle of dust and the cap stems, thus making it a pure and wholesome article. It is then taken automatically, by elevators, to a room where, spread upon wire trays, it is exposed to a temperature of 130 de grees Fahrenheit, which brings the fruit back to its normal condition, and in this "processing" the berry is eon verted into pectin, that delicious jelly which gives to fruits their best flavor. The raisins having been prepared, through this alternate heating and chilling, to keep indefinitely and re sist climatic influence, are passed through seeding machiues, each of which has a capacity of from ten to twelve tons daily. The raisins are pressed between rubber or similar surfaced rollers, which at first flatten the berry and press the seeds to the surface, when an impaling roller catolies the seeds between its needles or teeth, affixed to its periphery, deftly removing them from the fruit, while the latter passes on, minus its seeds, but preserving every particle of its flesh. The seeds are removed from the roller by a "flicking," or whisking, device, and are sent along to the seed receptacle, finally ending their journey in the engine room, where they are burned as fuel. Four hundred and fifty carloads of ten tons each, or 9.000,000 pounds, of seeded raisins were shipped from the Fresno district last year, and a very much larger tonnage will be turned out this year. Some estimate can be formed of the possibilities of the Fresno seeded raisin plants when it is stated that their aggi egate capacity for this sea sou will approximate 1700 to 2000 car loads, while it is probable that 1400 cars will be the output. Each seed ing plant has from five to twelve ma chines of ten tons daily capacity per machine. Some of the packing-houses cover a ground space 150 by 225 feet and are three stories high.—California Vinyardist. Sines 1880 the average time it takes x letter to get from Loudon to Bom bay ha< been reduced from three weeks to two. Z.lke Finding Money. The use ol the Endless Chain Btnrct Book In the purchase of- "Red Cross" and ''Hublnger's Best" starch, makes it just like finding money. Why, for only So you are enabled to get one large 10c packuga of "Red Cross" starch, one large 10c pack age of "Hublnger's Best" starch, with th« premiums, two Shakespeare panels, print ed in twelve beautiful colors, or one Twen tieth Century Girl Calendar, embossed ir gold. Ask your grocer for tbls starch ami obtain the beautiful Christmas presents frei Be Saved the Baby. An old resident of a Nova Scotis town is the proud owner of a New foundland dog for which he has been offered large sums. The dog's in telligence has always been rated high, but two years ago he added to hie reputation by an act which seemed tc indicate a power of rapid reasoniug equal to that possessed by many human beings. His master lives on the side of a hill, the street sloping rather abruptly down to the water's edge. One day a little girl, left in charge of her baby sister sleeping in its small car riage, turned away to talk with a schoolmate, and forgot the baby fore moment. In that moment a sudden gust of wind took the little carriage, and bore it rapidly along down the hill toward the water. The two children ran shrieking after it, but the wind was too fleet for them. The big Newfoundland, lying at the foot of his master's walk, us usual, raised his head when he heard the cries, and saw the carriage skimming by him. Unlike the children, he made no attempt to overtake it by a direct ohase, but dashing across three or four lawns, he came out at a curve of the road ahead of the little vehicle, and planting himself firmly in its track stopped it, and held it safely until some of the neighbors, who had been roused by the cries, hurried to the spot. Then he walked up the hill again, apparently unmoved by the praise and petting whioh were surely his due, and resumed his nap with the air of a dog that had done his duty as best he knew how, and was content. —Youth's Companion. An attempt on a large scale is soon to be made to stock the abandoned farms of Maine with cattle from the west. Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Mfe Arrty. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag netic. full or life, nerve and vigor, take No-To- Bao, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men strong. All druggists, GOc or 11. Cure guaran teed. Booklet and sample free. Address Stealing Remedy Co.. Chicago or New York. Rabbits cannot gnaw through wire cloth placed about fruit trees. VITALITY low.debilitated or exhausted cured by )>r. Kline's Invigorating Tonic. KIIEKJI trial bottle for 2 Weeks'treatment. Dr. Kline, Lid., 9tfl Arch St., Philadelphia. Founded 1871 In Manitoba there urn 2,500,000 acres under crops, of which 1,G00,000 is wheat. To Cure Constipation Forever* Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. lOcorSßc. 'I C. C. C. fall to cure, druggists refund money- Music boxes for bicycles are manufac tured by a firm iu Hamburg, Germany. After physicians had given me up, I wn< saved by Pisa's Cure.—HALPH Kiut:u, Wil iiamsport, Pa., Nov. 22, lHlti. Ilow Are Tour Kidneys 112 Dr Hobbs' Sparagus Pills cure all kidney Ills. Sarr. plo free. Add. Stoning Remedy Co., Chicago or N. V There is a town without a name on Lake Huron. ~The Whole Truth! There's nothing so bad for a cough as coughing. There's nothing so good for a cough as Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. The 25 ceat size is just right for tn ordinary, everyday cold. The 50 cent size is better (or the cough of bronchitis, croup, grip, and hoarseness. The dollar size is the best for chronic coughs, as in consumption, chronic bron chitis, asthma, etc. L*r? I £«.u»e h \ Thompson's EysWafs I > HOW STORIES GROW. They say the lamb which Mary had, Whose fleece was white as snow, Was really just a clever "Ad." For Ivory Soap, you know. IVORY SOAP IS 99%, PER CENT. PURE. COPYRIGHT 1860 BY THE PROCTER * GAMBLE CO. CINCINNATI Save 111*' Nickels* From saving, comes having. Ask your Srocer how you can save 15c by Investing sc. He can tell you just how you can get >ne large 10c package of "Red Cross" ttarcb, one large 10c package of "Hubln jer's Best" starch, with the premiums, two oeautlful Shakespeare panels, printed in twelve beautiful colors, or one Twentieth Sentury Girl Calendar, all for sc. Ask your jrocer for this starch and obtain these beautiful Christmas presents free. The town of Moorehead, Ivau., has * co-operative hotel, laundry, hall, ;reamery and canning factory and a jo-operative dining-hall, with several ;o-operative farms near by. Beauty la Blood Deep. Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by atirring up the lazy liver and driving all im purities from the body. Begin to-day to Danish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cascarets, —beauty for ten cents. All drug gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c. California produces about one-third of the almonds consumed iu the United States. Dralnru Cannot lie Cured nv local application?, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is onl.v one way to cure deafness, and that Is by constitu tional remedies. Deafness Is caused by an in flamed condition of the mucous linlngof the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is in flamed you have a rumbling sound or imper fect hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness is the result, and unless the inflam mation can be taken out and this tube re stored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten are .■aused by catarrh, which is nothing butan in flamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will (five One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh cure. Send for circulars, free. F. .T. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. 'There are over seventy miles of tunxels cut in the solid rock of Gibraltar. Educate Tour Bowela With Cacearat*. Candy Catbartlo, cure constipation forever. 10c, 25c. If C. C. C. tail, druggists-refund money. Covent Garden, London, has been In the possession of the Bedford family 300 years. WANTED— Gentleman or laily to represent ns lu this vicinity, having wide acquaintance with property owners and people with means. If you can give good reference there Is 93000 yearly income. No experience or money required. For in formation address. H. E. HIDEII. 10 wall St., N. Y. CIA EAR C i Fortunes In stocks; Invest $6 to 9IV rlln w I 9100 and get 91000'for 9100 sure; safe as a bank. Reed A Co.. 181 B. tth at., Phlla., Pa. lUnPItfTTfYKT THIS PAPER WHEN KKPLY- IxLtiiN IJ.UIN INQ TO ADVTS. 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